Apparatus for discharging retorts used in the manufacture of coal-gas and the like.



C. HOLLANDER.

APPARATUS FOB DISCHARGING RETORTS USED IN THE MANUFAOTURE 0F GOAL GAS AND THE LIKE.

' APPLIOATION FILED ooT.1o,19o.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

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G. HOLLANDER.

APPLICATION FIL'ED 00T.10,1908.

APPARATUS` Pon DISGHABGING BBToRTs USED 1N THE MANUFAOTUBB or com. GAS AND THE L1Kz..

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APPARATUS FOR DISGHARGING RETORTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE 0F GOAL GAS AND THE LIKE.

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UNITED STARS AT CORNELIUS HOLLANDER, OF MANCHESTER,

OF OVENDEN, HALFAX, ENGLAND, A COMPANY.

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ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR lO DRAKICS LIMITED,

APPARATUS FOR-DISCHARGING BETOBTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COAL- G'AS AND THE LIKE.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Specification of Letters Eatezit.

Application filed October 10, 1908.

Be it known that l, CORNELiUs .HOLL/,N- DER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of 900 Chester road, Manchester, 5 in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Ap aratus for Discharging Rotor-ts Used in the ianufacture of CoalG-as and the Like, of which the following description, wherein reference is made to the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

It relates to apparatus for discharging or removing the coke or spent substance from retorts used in the manufacture of coal gas and the like, said retorts being1 of the class known as through retorts in connection With which a push or pressing plate may be made to enter the opening at one end thereof to travel to move through same and carry with it so as to force out the coke, or substances to be removed therefrom, through the opening at the other end of said retort.

And

my said invention has especial reference to that class of dischargin,. apparatus wherein a sectional or jointed push-bar is made use of, such sectional parts or links being so jointed together as to form a rigid bar when advancing through the retort while when being withdrawn therefrom the sectional parts may be Wound around a drum.

The object of my said invention is to construct said sectional parts of the push bar and hinge or pivotally connect them together in such a manner that on being Wound around the drum the diameter of same is not increased although two or more coils may be Wound thereon while the direction of thrust is alwalys in perfect alinement with the longitudina parallel with their path of motion without necessitating the transmission of lateral motion to their actuating drum during the time that it is being rotated and by the same method of construction the surface of the base of the retort over which said bar has to slide is not abraded, worn away or deteriorated so rapidly as when jointed bars of former construction are employed.

In the accompanying sheets of drawings which form part of this speciiication:-Fig ure 1 is part sectional side elevation of apparatus made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan or view of arts shown igs. 3 and 4 Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

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are side view and plan respectively showing the extending end of push-bar and one of the links connected therewith, the saine being drawn to an enlarged scale. Fig. 5 is end elevation of parts shown by Fig. 3 as seen in the direction of the arrow 20. Fig. 6 is a view of parts shown by Fig. 1 as seen in the direction indicated by the arrow 21 and drawn to an enlarged scale. Fig. 7 is a drawing in detail illustrating a method of hinging or connecting the links to their drums.

In carrying my invention into effect I construct the push-bar (which has the usual end pi1sliplate a mounted thereon) in pairs of links a, Z) the links in each pair being held apart by their cross-stayp1cocs c and by their attachment to the drumsj'so that their rear ends 2, 2 are a greater distance apart than aro the advancing ends 3, 3 thus when the whole series of links c b are connected together all the links in each series are in alinement with each other, yet the serios (L are at an angle to the series b as well as being at an angle to their path of motion indicated by the chain line A-B in Fig. 2; in this manner the two series of links a', b may be said to assume the form of a truncated-isoscelestriangle in contradistinction to a parallelogram as is the case when both series of links are parallel to each other.

Those links a, b which are held apart by the stay-pieces c (see Figs. 1 and 2) may have such stayieces to form their pivotal connections, whie those links which are not held apart by the stay-pieces, have pivotal pins or studs d as their mountings. And as said links have to be coiled or wound upon the drum f I may only use the stay-pieces c on such a -number of them as will make up the last coil thus the space between the other coils of links is free of thenLto enable said last coil to lie in its proper position upon the periphery of the drum f.

The drum f upon which the series of links a, I) forming the push-bar; are to be mounted and by which they have to be moved into and out of one or other of the retorts O, is so constructed by having guiding and engaging plates or projecting flanges g upon its periphery that by the rearmost links al, blbein coupled to said drum f (as by the pivota connection d shown by Figs. 6 and 7) on this latter being rotated, all the links of both of the series a and b will be wound thereon or unwound therefrom as the oase may be, and as these series of links a and t are at an angle to their path A-B, on being wound upon their drurnf their courses will be in the form of a double helix so that each succeeding coil oi links when wound on the drum y is the same Whether there is only one of such coils thereon or whether there are two or more of same.

The series of links a and are Jformed to be y pivoted together as shown, and so that they may have lateral projecting surfaces or parts as at h in order that the outer ends le of the projecting plates or iianges g may engage with them as shown by Fig. "l, to force them ,f alonO their path through the retort as the drum j' is being rotated to unwind them from it.

Motion is transmitted to the shait m, upon which the drum j'is fixed, or otherwise direct to said drum f by any appropriate worm and wheel or other gearing and the whole is mounted upon framework carrying hoisting mechanism and running on rails in manner and for purposes well understood.

By the pivoted links a and I) being in the relative positions described7 as they are moving through the retort each succeeding pair of plates will travel over a dill'erent part orn the retorts surface p which supports them,

hence said retorts are not thereby worn into grooves or Jfurrows as is the case when the series of plates are in alinement with their path of motion,

Such being the nature and object of my invention what l claim is l. ln apparatus of the class described, a push bar formed in two series of sections or links one series of said links being arranged to be at an angle to the other series, substantially as specii'ied.

2. In apparatusporo 'the class described a push bar formed in two series orp sections or links one series of the said links being arranged to be at an angle to the other series and a drum for actuating the same arranged and operating substantially as described.

3. ln apparatus of the class described a push-bar formed in two series of sections or links one series of the said links being arranged to be at an angle to the other series, lateral projections on the said links, a drum ior actuating the push bar and plates or flanges or their equivalent on the said drum all arranged and operating substantially as described,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CORNELIUS HOLLANDER.

vWitnesses z JOHN WILLIAM VVALLrs, SAMUEL HEY. 

